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The British won the French and Indian War along with lots of debt. The cost of the war and caused a lot of tension between the colonies and the mother country.
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This was the first law passed raising the tax revenue on the colonists. The colonies protested, which led to the lower of the cost.
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These acts were proposed because of the French and Indian War debt that was made from supplying the colonists with defense. The Stamp Act was a tax on stamps that were now required on lots of different documentations.
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It enforced a tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea. The tax on tea was the most offensive to the colonists because almost everyone drank tea. The Townshend act was later repealed, but Parliament kept the tax on tea just to show who was boss.
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The people of Boston started taunting the British officials. The British started firing, killing/wounding eleven people.
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The colonists followed the tea tax laws. Then one day the people in Boston dressed as Indians and smashed and threw the tea chests into the ocean.
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This act closed down the Boston harbor until the damages were paid. This was Parliaments way of reacting and punishing people from the Boston Tea Party
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This allowed the French Canadians to resume customs and let their religion be Catholicism. It did not give them trial by jury or a representative assembly.
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It was a boycott of British goods. They did not import, export or consume those goods.
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This was were the first shot as fired, igniting the Revolutionary War.
